These three excellent articles by Irwin Hirsch, Christopher Bonovitz, and Mark Blechner on the impact of the Interpersonal tradition on contemporary psychoanalytic thinking illuminate different aspects of the Interpersonal tradition. They may, however, inadvertently demonstrate the hermeneutical difficulty inherent in engaging the past with the lexicon of the present. Something gets lost in translation, not just between languages, but also over the passage of time. Subtle slippages in the meaning of words, and more important, in the underlying paradigms, ensue. Thus, the Sullivanian goal of demystifying current experience—with all its implicit social radicalism—gives way to the Relational goal of actualizing, and perhaps compensating for, early deprivation. Interpersonal Psychology, which, still relevant, suggests that the present is not misconstrued because of the past, but is misunderstood.